How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed?

2013-06-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed? I know that there's a get_iplayer installer, but I already have the perl ide 'PADRE' installed, and that has an integrated copy of Strawberry Perl inside it. I also already have some (maybe all) of the helper .exe's like lame,

Re: rtmpdump version error

2013-06-26 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
emme...@btopenworld.com wrote: So I uninstalled Quicktime and rebooted. New get_iplayer started working fine. That strongly implies that there was a copy of rtmpdump somewhere inside the Quicktime program folder, and that that copy was older than the one GiP is using. I re-installed

Re: Uninstallation

2013-06-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
J K.Eason j...@jeason.cix.co.uk wrote: Yes. It appeared, but no one has answered. I suspect it wouldn't be possible though because that information isn't available from iPlayer to my knowledge. It is available on the BBC website, if you expand the information about a specific programme -

Re: unable to post - just a test

2013-07-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Shiner dodgy-cu...@ntlworld.com wrote: FWIW I never saw my first (and only post so far) either. I have, however, seen all the replies. Perhaps I should have included myself in the *To* line! It shouldn't be necessary though... You can always look at the list's archive of all posts at:

Re: How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed?

2013-07-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: See the installation instructions for one way to do it: https://github.com/dinkypumpkin/get_iplayer/wiki/installation It took me a while to get started on this, but I've run into a problem. I first installed the PADRE perl IDE which comes with a

Re: How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed?

2013-07-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/07/2013 15:01, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: These almost all worked. The install of Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained failed because during the test phase of its install it couldn't find a random number generator. I did follow

Re: How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed?

2013-07-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/07/2013 18:40, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: So I'll uninstall all of that and go back to a standalone Strawberry Perl, and get 5.16.2.1 - which is not the current stable one, but I guess it's better that I use the same version

Re: to the attention of the moderator?

2013-07-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Henry Miller he...@henryandangela.co.uk wrote: ... having no success-please could you advise? Vist: http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer and follow the instructions, near the foot of the page. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Radio Downloader featured on this week's R4 'Feedback' programme

2013-07-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Complaints from users of Radio Downloader were discussed on this week's R4 Feedback programme. The BBC view was that RD circumvented DRM on the programmes it fetched, which is why it had to be stopped. (I really don't udnerstand why the beeb take this point of view, since anyone recording

Re: New Website

2013-07-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
michael norman michaeltnor...@gmail.com wrote: On 17/07/13 11:06, Square Penguin wrote: TBH I had reservations about the logo before launching the site and I hear the concerns raised here. And your reservations were shared where exactly. There's no reason why SP's reservations should have

Re: New Website

2013-07-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
David thebrilliantmist...@gmail.com wrote: Some points: 1) Open Source does not mean free. The two are often confused. Absolutely, but the home page at http://getiplayer.co.uk/ explicitly says that get_iplayer is both 'free' and 'open-source', so the distinction doesn't matter here. --

Re: Netiquette - bottom posting - outdated?

2013-07-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Xtra terryandshe...@xtra.co.nz wrote: Thanks TQ - but bottom-posting is rather like your own response, where for some reason you list your answers BEFORE your questions It was a classic and deliberate example, often used in discussions like this, to demonstrate why top posting is

A bug in preferences handling (in 2.83)

2013-07-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
While setting preferences I issued: get_iplayer --prefs-add --output H:\ which I assumed had worked - I didn't look carefully enough at the output from that... On my following attempt to fetch a programme I got: mkdir H:\: Invalid argument; The filename, directory name, or volume

Re: How to install get_iplayer on WinXP with perl already installed?

2013-07-24 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/07/2013 16:14, dinkypumpkin wrote: so I'm wondering if in fact the help-page's list of modules is correct? If you're referring to the installation instructions in the GitHub wiki, it's correct. Mea culpa. Authen::SASL was missing from the

Using --force

2013-08-01 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Using v2.83 Last night I downloaded a radio programme as an .m4a file then tried to refetch it as an mp3. I used the command: get_iplayer baldi --type=radio --get --aactomp3 -force I'd expected the --force to tell GiP to ignore the fact that the programme had already been downloaded, and get

Re: Using --force

2013-08-01 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/08/2013 16:08, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: get_iplayer baldi --type=radio --get --aactomp3 -force If the above is a direct copy+paste, then you're missing a hyphen in front of force, so it would be ignored. It's a cp from notes I

Re: Radio-programme thumbnail question

2013-08-01 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/08/2013 16:16, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: I keep seeing INFO messages saying that some .jpg has been downloaded, but there's never any such file present in the output directory after the download is complete. For example - see

Is this failure to download a radio programme somethiung I can fix?

2013-08-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
For several days, and on two machines, I've tried to download a Radio Ulster programme, called Bad Language, listed as the 09 Aug episode. It seems to fail to fetch the first stream using RTMPDUMP, then go on to try another (real time WMA streaming?). That goes wrong in a different way - I see

Problem with --long option

2013-08-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
According to longhelp, there's two meanings for the --long option, one affecting how search operates and one affecting the way results are displayed. Are they meant to be 2 different options, or is it intended that one option has two effects? -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: MP4 to MP3 (Video+Audio - Audio)

2013-08-26 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Roger Bell_West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: Any standards-compliant email client will include a reply-to-list feature which acts on the RFC2369 headers present in every email message. I do not believe the list should encourage users of non-standard clients. Absolutely. I think the problem is

Re: MP4 to MP3 (Video+Audio - Audio)

2013-08-26 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
George DiceGeorge dicegeo...@hotmail.com wrote: I agree, and also I'd like a prefix like [get_iplayer] in all the subject lines to make it easier to sort through my emails. Define a folder for get_iplayer mails, and set up a filter to route mails containing the List-Id:

Re:

2013-08-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Don Grunbaum d...@grunbaum.co.uk wrote: The BBC certainly aren't infallible. The recent 2 part version of The 39 Steps has the first episode labelled The Thirty Nine Steps and the second labelled The Thirty-Nine Steps. Took me a little while to spot why record series hadn't picked up the

Is it possible to redirect output from get_iplayer?

2013-09-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
At present I use an ooREXX program to build the get_iplayer.pl command I wish to execute (at least in part to prevent me making stupid mistakes in the command string, and also because I'm sharing the caches history file between computers via Dropbox, but fetching files to local directories on any

Re: BBC radio london programmes - why do my recordings end up mono?

2013-09-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Mable Syrup blackonesu...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: [snip] Seeing this list of programme attributes reminded me of something I've been meaning to ask: ... fileprefix: Robert_Elms_-_With_Oz_Clarke_Tom_Hall_Philip_Pittack_and_Martin_White_p01fjv45_default firstbcast: default:

Re: BBC radio london programmes - why do my recordings end up mono?

2013-09-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: Hi Jeremy. It's pretty late now in my timezone, but just off-the-top-of-my-head you may have to manually update the get_iplayer.pl script from git - please see the following commits ... Thank-you very much! -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions

problems with radio.cache file

2013-10-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Using 2.83 I've been writing some code that reads the radio.cache file, and have found three instances where the lines in the current file seem to have been split across two records in the file - I'm guessing there's a LF or CR inside the 'desc' field in each case. I'm not sure if this is a

Re: refresh problems

2013-10-23 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Shevek she...@shevek.co.uk wrote: Log file 2: http://pastebin.com/mtynUy1E This is full of lines like: DEBUG: Getting feed http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/parliament/list/limit/400 INFO: Getting page http://feeds.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/parliament/list/limit/400 .INFO: Got 0 programmes whereas in the

Re: problems with radio.cache file

2013-10-25 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/10/2013 19:15, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: I've been writing some code that reads the radio.cache file, and have found three instances where the lines in the current file seem to have been split across two records in the file - I'm

Re: How to terminate a downloading task when rtmpdump.exe is still on?

2013-10-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
general t...@hotmail.com wrote: Hello everyone, Short description: During a downloading session, get_iplayer, after calling rtmpdump.exe, can not response to user input like Ctrl+c to terminate the program. I'm not sure that that's true; I think I may have used either ^C or ^Z to stop a

Re: Radio Download Skipped Even with --force

2013-11-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: OK I shall try again but I did use --force and this usually does what is intended! If you download a programme, then watch/listen to it and delete it or move the file somewhere else on your computer, then try to download it again, GiP will fail because the

Re: Poor quality audio on last 2 episodes

2013-11-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Mark Phillips m...@wondermouse.co.uk wrote: I have been recording the series Petite Mort on Radio 4 - both as individual 15 minute episodes and also as an omnibus on 4 Extra. Episodes 1-8 and Omnibus 1 all came down at 128k AAC as expected, Episodes 9 and 10 and Omnibus part 2 have just turned

Re: Tagging problem when using pvr (Was recent issue with AtomicParsley)

2013-11-11 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: Running get_iplayer 2.84 with AtomicParsley 0.9.5 on openSUSE 64 bit. I am still trying to diagnose the problem but it appears that if I do a download from a terminal all is well and downloads are correctly tagged. However the downloads resulting from pvr

Re: Radio File Format Questions

2013-11-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: Since I have no idea why I get these files from time to time I assume I do not have get_iplayer set up correctly so that is cannot download in this format. First request then is what should I put in my options file to ensure I only get the higher quality

Re: The_World_About_Us_The_Romance_of_Indian_Railways

2014-01-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Chris J Brady chrisjbr...@yahoo.com wrote: I'm using the latest Windows-based PVM. I have tried to search for this programme but the results are always null. http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/p0120460/The_World_About_Us_The_Romance_of_Indian_Railways/ As far as I know the commandline

Re: Still getting Command exit code 1 (raw code = 256) with 2.85?

2014-01-30 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Chris Marriott ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk wrote: Rather than all convoluted stuff you posted, what happens if you simply download it directly from the command line? get_iplayer --mode=flashhd --pid=b03lb92t All that convoluted stuff is normal output from such a command, if (as the OP did) you

Re: iPlayerRadio (finally - and sadly) has changed!

2014-02-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Mark Rogers m...@quarella.co.uk wrote: On 12 February 2014 18:00, Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: OT: A month ago [...] I missed this when originally posted as a postscript to an email that wasn't relevant to me and I had skipped. Just seen you mention it in another

Re: BBC Archive Blues Collections

2014-02-19 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
michael norman michaeltnor...@gmail.com wrote: To be specific I would like to find the pids for the programmes here http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/collections/p01m79bn/blues The URLs for the separate programmes all end in a /pxxx value, different for each one. That's the pid. If you want

Re: Confused Newbie

2014-03-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Barrie Avis barrie.a...@gmail.com wrote: I am clearly just a confused Newbie and I just cannot see the big picture of what I am doing. Although I have used Windows for many years, I am totally new to the Pi, Linux and Raspbian I want to run the BBC iPlayer on my new Raspberry Pi. Is that

Re: War Walks - Green Line

2014-03-21 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Peter S Kirk peter.k...@isauk.biz wrote: Very strange, you gave a horizontal line online and I have a vertical line in the downloaded .flv Yet it appears OK in iPlayer on both PCs I have tried it on. The files fetched by get_iplayer, and those streamed by the online thing are not

Re: Modes=best?

2014-03-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Arthur Dent misc.li...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: When I download an episode of Silk (details below) it results in a 1.1mb file. When I play the episode it has a large BBC logo in the top left (I thought that HD programmes had a small logo - or has that changed?) An hour INFO: duration

Re: player.xml broken

2014-05-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Don Grunbaum d...@grunbaum.co.uk wrote: My experience suggests that ^Genius$ does not work, but Genius (without the ^ and $) will work ok, although it could pick up false positives. I think the colon is what upsets the match. My experience is that ^Genius does work, but putting the dollar

case sensitivity in commands

2014-05-14 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
I've known for a while that it doesn't seem to matter whether the text fragments used to search for a programme name are in upper, lower or mixed case, so was surprised to find (when I accidentally had caps lock pressed) that --VERSION SIGNED didn't match a programme which I knew existed,

Re: Ipod playback truncated at around 20-22 mins

2014-05-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
scrofula 101 scrofula...@gmail.com wrote: Having problems with get_iplayer in Linux Mint 16 for a while now. Using current version 2.86. All the radio files I obtain playback fine on the computer but when I transfer them to ipod nano using itunes on Windows 8.1 they cut out at around 20-22 mins

Re: Problems with colons in searches

2014-05-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
JB Caruth jbc-pub...@caruth.com wrote: $ ./get_iplayer ^Coast: Coast Australia$ Any ideas why ... the manual search is finding too many? The results seem to be those of $ ./get_iplayer ^Coast which makes me wonder if : has some meaning in whatever command shell you're using? -- Jeremy

Re: Problems with colons in searches

2014-05-22 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
JB Caruth jbc-pub...@caruth.com wrote: Which leaves me back where I started - wondering why the search (via PVR or manual, with or without escaped colon) is not finding the available programmes. Because there's no colon to be found where you expect it? If I search for ^coast.*coast

Re: firstbcast field absent

2014-06-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Robert Snelling h3...@rcs.me.uk wrote: Is it just me, or have the BBC changed something? I make use of the firstbcast field... A bigger problem is that the BBC don't seem to have decided what first broadcast should mean. For example I've fetched the files for The Hitchhiker's Guide...

Re: Curiosity: what means mmsnothread; and why might I need it?

2014-06-20 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 19/06/2014 12:27, Howard Orgel wrote: Installation of a previous version put mmsnothread 1 in GiP's system options file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\get_iplayer\options. It has survived updates/reinstallations to present. What does it do;

A problem with rtmpdump on a flakey internet connection

2014-07-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
I've got a 60Mb/s Virgin cable connection which is great when it's working, but has had a tendency recently to drop for a few seconds every so often. I found rtmpdump frequently failing to pick up a download after a connection has had a blip. The documentation for rtmpdump itself suggests that it

Re: A problem with rtmpdump on a flakey internet connection

2014-07-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: You can use --rtmp-tv-opts or --rtmp-radio-opts to override the default and avoid making changes to the script. Ah. I did look at the longhelp for the perl program but looked for timeout-related things and overlooked rtmp- prefixed options. I just

Re: Problems recording Hive

2014-08-06 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
David WIDGERY widgery.da...@orange.fr wrote: Hi, I have been trying to record the first episode of Hive and get the following result, is this still part of the BBC iplayer website problem or am I missing somthing. The latter If you look at:

Re: PVR script not running reliably

2014-09-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Philip Colmer phi...@colmer.me.uk wrote: I'm using the get_iplayer--pvr.bat script on a Windows system. It seemed to be working fine until something happened that caused the programmes cache not to be updated, so the PVR stopped realising it needed to grab anything. So then I updated the script

Re: PVR script not running reliably

2014-09-05 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Philip Colmer phi...@colmer.me.uk wrote: It looks like Windows 8/Windows Server 2012 broke Task Scheduler in that if a task is running but the user is not logged in, the profile doesn't get loaded, so the path is wrong. There is a KB article referencing this

Funny characters in the cache files

2014-09-09 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
There's a TV programme at the moment named: The £100k House. In the tv.cache file, this programme's name is stored as: The £100k House - that is there's an unexpected character - hex c2 - before the pound sign. It means that a search for, say, The £100 won't find this programme. I'm wondering

Re: podcast listings missing a digit

2014-10-01 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Mark Rogers m...@quarella.co.uk wrote: On 1 October 2014 15:33, Owen Smith owen.sm...@cantab.net wrote: I'm so used to Reply going to a sensible destination for all my other emails There are two buttons: Reply and Reply All... And in my email client, three buttons. There's also one for 'reply

Re: Download showing negative cts, previous timestamps might be wrong

2014-10-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Nick Payne nick.pa...@internode.on.net wrote: I just downloaded the most recent episode of New Tricks in HD (series 11 episode 8), and when I had a look at the cmd window after the download finished,... I see this from time to time on tv programmes; it doesn't happen during the download, but

Re: Another download issue.

2014-10-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Vangelis forthnet northmed...@the.forthnet.gr wrote: Please read the case reported @ https://squarepenguin.co.uk/forums/topic/cant-get-programmes-available-on-iplayer/#post-9759 Adding the following line (denoted by the + sign) to the GIT HEAD version will fix it... This one might have a

Re: Another download issue.

2014-10-13 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: On 13/10/2014 19:36, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: This one might have a different fundamental cause. On the day it should have come available it was listed on bbc website pages but wouldn't fetch. By the following day it had ceased

Re: More (or less) Tommies

2014-10-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Clive roadc...@uk2.net wrote: Now parts 1 2 of Tommies from the afternoon drama slot are available on iplayer to play but they are not listed in the searches tommies or noon drama. Their --pid returns the error not found in radio cache I think that that isn't an error, just a statement of

Re: Strugging to record Building Dream Homes

2014-10-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Paul Phillips paulphillipsdidsb...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Everything has been working since I upgraded web pvr to 2.87 , apart from this show: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b0467k48/ad/building-dream-homes-episode-2 It's one of those morning programmes on BBC 2 that doesn't seem to ever

Re: Accessing programmes more than a week old?

2014-10-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Chris Marriott ch...@chrism.demon.co.uk wrote: Apologies - this is slightly OT for the list, but perhaps someone knows the answer. I was under the impression that iPlayer had been updated to allow the playing of programmes more than a week old, now, but when I go to the iPlayer web site, and

Does anyone know what a 'reversion' is?

2014-10-27 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
I've noticed that a few BBC programmes are described as 'reversions'. For example there's a repeat (or maybe it's more than that?) of Series 5 of Rip Off Britain on at the moment. In the tv.cache file ( on the BBC website) the episodes are titled: Rip Off Britain: Series 5 (Daytime

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: The BBC have removed the programme data feeds used by get_iplayer... Hell. Even if I have to resort to the BBC website to watch streamed programmes, or use get_iplayer to download by pids researched online, the programme data was invaluable for telling

Re: Download by pid but save in download_history?

2014-10-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Arthur Murray amurray...@gmail.com wrote: While the PVR functionality is unavailable I need to download by PIDs, but can I save these PIDs in the download_history automatically? What command line options will accomplish this? I fetch TV programmes by PID quite often, including tonight. Entries

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Timothy tmthywy...@aol.com wrote: I guess this means I'll have to deal with the inherently visual nature of BBC iPlayer's site from now on? *sigh* This is what I get for being a complacent blindy... Maybe a complaint/request for help from the BBC from the point of view of a partially- or non-

Re: [ANN] get_iplayer search and PVR functions no longer work - no fix available

2014-10-29 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Lorenzo Martinelli lore...@martinelli.co.uk wrote: The first episode is here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b04n8zdp/autumnwatch-20... The pid (programme id) is this: b04n8zdp To fetch it you need to issue a get_iplayer command including --pid b04n8zdp in the arguments to the

Re: One case where PID does not work ( was A message from Auntie )

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
artisticforge . artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: Cannot download because get_iplayer is determining that the program is not available because it has not yet been broadcast. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/programmes/schedules/this_week http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04mbmzb A few minutes ago I got

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Ian Macdonald ianma...@gmail.com wrote: I have always just used the command line, but the last option seems best, it depends on how much effort is required to reverse engineer the API... The problem isn't the API, so far as I understand it. The problem is that any request has to include a 'key'.

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Rob Dixon rob.di...@gmx.com wrote: There is a simple application form, which I filled in today, to get a licence for accessing the Nitro API, and there's no implication that there's a BBC-staff-only restriction. I'll keep people updated about what I hear back. On all three of:

Re: get_iplayer repair update #1

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
dinkypumpkin dinkypump...@gmail.com wrote: get_iplayer has been more or less repaired, but there are still some wounds. I'm going to release what I have on Sunday This is excellent news, and I have to say I'm impressed by the amount you've managed to do in such a short time. (I realise

Re: Proof-of-concept scraper for iPlayer web frontend TV data to JSON

2014-10-31 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Rob Dixon rob.di...@gmx.com wrote: I'm no lawyer, but on the face of it I would say we're clear. as supplied to you by the BBC says to me that it mustn't be modified, not that it mustn't be stored. We already all store this stuff in browser caches when using the website as normal. -- Jeremy

Re: Solutions to loss of RSS feed

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: If any of the team here knows whether the Favourites page can provide what I want please let me know. I have no idea... but I do remember reading a lot of complaints when the last big website revision happened, and the BBC didn't migrate all the info people

Re: Updated version of Get_Iplayer

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I haven't seen one released since v2.79. Is that a typo? There's announcement messages posted to this mail list each time there's a new release. So - for the last few - v 2.85 on 6 Nov 2013 v 2.86 on 6 Apr 2014 v 2.87 on 19 Oct 2014 --

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Terry L. Ridder artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello I may have missed something , but where is there any mention of the www.bbc.co.uk website programme schedules going away? You've missed this: if a computer program grabs website pages and 'scrapes' them, which is to say wades through all the

Re: Pids Not Downloading

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Computing comput...@windcheetah.org.uk wrote: Hi, I'm trying to download the Tony Hancock bits. I've had a quick explore of the BBC website and can't find any such programme listed there... So... what radio station, and what programme name? If there's no programme offered on the website for a

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dirk Husemann dirk+getipla...@d2h.net wrote: this one seems to work: % curl -v -v http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/js/episode/b04nhkz9 GET /iplayer/js/episode/b04nhkz9 HTTP/1.1 Interesting, but not a schedule. You already knew the pid... -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Multiple pids - another way, in some cases

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
roadcone roadc...@gmx.com wrote: ... then it tells me that they are all in my download history. You'd need to code --force to stop get_iplayer from stopping because it found (from the download history) that you've already downloaded those items. -- Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own.

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Sharon Kimble boudic...@skimble.plus.com wrote: Thanks for this Charles. With your last command --8---cut here---start-8--- wget -q -O - http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/programmes/schedules/fm/this_week.json | jq '.[] | .[] | .[] | .[] | .programme as $P |

Re: Shell script to get PIDs from schedules

2014-11-02 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dirk Husemann dirk+getipla...@d2h.net wrote: On 2014-11-02 19:49, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: Interesting, but not a schedule. You already knew the pid... which you can get from the iplayer guide page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/guide/bbc/20141029 Yes, but the point of the thread

Re: A glimpse of Nitro

2014-11-03 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Charles Johnson cehjohn...@gmail.com wrote: Taken from the source of http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/uk-politics-29825165 The Nitro urls have even specified a special URI scheme: Looks like these pages expect support for several: coverage: pulsar: nitro: eg (as you said):

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: Digital gives us the unprecedented ability to make a perfect copy, not a lossy copy as with tape ... But it's a perfect copy of an imperfect (compressed, loss of detail etc) source I'd think they'd be more concerned about digital tv recorders

Re: No programmes are available for this pid

2014-11-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: I'm puzzled by this message: No programmes are available for this pid with version(s): default which I get when trying to download two programmes (PIDs p0299nz3 and p0299ml1). Usually it means they're only available in eg 'signed' form. For that you

Re: Thank You

2014-11-04 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Nick get_ipla...@i.lucanops.net wrote: Which is the irony of the enforcement of OTT IP. The restrictions won't ever truly work - even with some closed network, server and client system the end-user could still video the screen. And how much is a phone these days that can video something? :)

Re: get_iplayer - works at first... then doesn't

2014-11-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim Lesurf j...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: I'm using command line and issuing commands like get_iplayer --type=radio --verbose --not-tag --pid b04lsjkv --o outdir in a terminal. The --no-tag avoids the fetch working but getting a complaint about inability to fetch some metadata to tag the

Re: get_iplayer - works at first... then doesn't

2014-11-07 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim Lesurf j...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: On 07 Nov, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer jn.ml.gti...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: Jim Lesurf j...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: I'm using command line and issuing commands like get_iplayer --type=radio --verbose --not-tag --pid b04lsjkv --o outdir

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

2014-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim Lesurf j...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: One complication here I've already hit is that IIUC the xfce mint distro I'm using doesn't provide ffmpeg but avcodec (?) I've installed a local version of ffmpeg but am unsure of how avcodec may differ from this in ways that may affect what I have in

'fileprefix' filename templates are having characters elided

2014-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
With 2.84 etc this worked. With 2.90 (I've not used any of the intermediate versions), specifying for example: --fatfilename --whitespace --file-prefix $GRAB-SN130-002369 R=nameshort - Sseriesnum Eepisodenum - E=episodetitle 'E=episode' P=pid M=mode Z=duration F=firsbcastdate L=lastbcastdate

Re: 'fileprefix' filename templates are having characters elided

2014-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer jn.ml.gti...@wingsandbeaks.org.uk wrote: With 2.84 etc this worked. With 2.90 (I've not used any of the intermediate versions), specifying for example: --fatfilename --whitespace --file-prefix $GRAB... produces a final file name like: $GRAB... Oops

Re:mail-list behavior, was: iplayer audio to lpcm

2014-11-08 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: Now think about what happens if you *don't* do people the courtesy of copying them directly. Some people will be cut out of the conversation *entirely* - only if they weren't mail list subscribers in the first place. Arguably they shouldn't have been

Re: iplayer audio to lpcm

2014-11-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
David Woodhouse dw...@infradead.org wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-08 at 23:54 +, Square Penguin wrote: Quick question - how do you deal with CC's in your inbox and duplicate messages in mailing list folders (assuming you filter to folders)? Simply ignore the duplicates or do you have a

Programme Title: Subtitle, or Title: Episode Title?

2014-11-10 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
From time to time I'm struck by entries in a cache file appearing to split what I would think of as a programme title with a subtitle, into a shorter title and an episode name... For example if one looks at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/tv/programmes/a-z/by/h/all?page=3 you can see what appear to be

Re: mpeg-dash and get_iplayer?

2014-11-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Jim Lesurf w...@audiomisc.co.uk wrote: Yes I know I can install it at the click of a button. But I'm wary of anything from Google given their dubious behaviour, etc. Would prefer an alternative. I'm surprised you don't already have it (and IE and Opera, at least) installed simply to check how

Re: OT - List mailing (was iplayer audio to lpcm)

2014-11-12 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Budgie aje...@errichel.co.uk wrote: On 10/11/14 17:36, Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer wrote: The mails in this thread that people have thoughtfully CCed to me personally have arrived, but the mail-list ones have not. I have sent this using Reply List and not CCd it to you, so will you

Is there a problem with --start and --stop?

2014-11-14 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Using v2.90, modified a bit... but I've not changed anything in the fetch logic. I'm testing something and don't want to download more than a few seconds of a tv programme, so used: --force --start 10 --stop 45 along with the same search criteria as I'd used for a previous whole-programme

An ironic INFO message!

2014-11-15 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
I've got the new option --check-duration turned on and was struck (bearing in mind this programme's episode name - by the irony in: INFO: Duration check: recorded: 01:36:09 expected: 01:35:00 difference: 00:01:09 file: C:\Gip\Inspector Montalbano - Ep=2. Equal Time.mp4 (Sorry.) -- Jeremy

Re: peculiar to BBC Radio Wales?

2014-11-16 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
artisticforge . artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Programme not in history WARNING: Page parsing may fail with HTML::Parser versions before 3.71. You have version 3.69. I wondered if this was relevant, as it suggests you're either not using a recent enough version

Re: Starting November 11, 2014 output filenames missing underline/underscore

2014-11-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
artisticforge . artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: Hello; while looking at the BBC Radio Wales issue, I noticed a separate issue. Starting November 11th, output file names for programmes from the National BBC Radio Stations and at least 2 of the larger local radio Stations are missing the

Re: peculiar to BBC Radio Wales?

2014-11-17 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
artisticforge . artisticfo...@gmail.com wrote: concerning the below: INFO: 1 Matching Programmes INFO: Programme not in history WARNING: Page parsing may fail with HTML::Parser versions before 3.71. You have version 3.69. I am running Debian Wheezy and Debian has not upgrade those modules as of

Re: Slow radio downloads

2014-11-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Dave Liquorice allso...@howhill.com wrote: iPlayer is one of the few sites that can fully saturate our meagre 5 Mbps ADSL connection anytime of day or night. No evening slow downs here... OTOH, I've hardly ever seen radio or TV data arrive at more than about 11 Mbps, despite having a connection

Re: Caches wont refresh ...

2014-11-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
CJB chrisjbr...@gmail.com wrote: All in triplicate!!! The t.v. indexes are listed as == snip == INFO: Getting tv Index Feeds (this may take a few minutes) WARNING: Failed to get programme index feed for BBC Alba - a-z ... Both tv and radio caches are fine here (around 11pm on the 18th).

Re: Slow radio downloads - a bit off topic

2014-11-18 Thread Jeremy Nicoll - ml get_iplayer
Alan Milewczyk a...@soulman1949.com wrote: In that case, I'd better not mention the 156Mbps downloads and 11.6Mbps uploads I get from Virgin here in Greater Manchester. My 60 Mbps connection is also a Virgin one; what actual download speeds of BBC radio tv programmes using get_iplayer do you

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